I'm 45. As a kid I didn't like videogames that much but loved arcade and pinball machines. Played then from 1981 to the early 90s. I discovered your channel last week, through an UA-cam recomendation, and just loved it. Not because of the nostalgia, I'm not that type, but because I'm a journalist and I really like to see a story well written and told. My favorite part of your videos is when you compare the arcade game to it's console and computer versions. Sometimes, watching your videos, I laugh remembering me and my friends, back in the day, a little bit confused asking ourselves why the Atari, MSX or Odyssey versions weren't as cool as the arcade's. Keep the amazing work, man!
Great video! I used to play this when my parents took us to the movies in the 80s, my Dad and I loved it. The wheel animation after the car would explode had us both laughing like goofs to my mom and sibs' dismay. This is my all-time favorite arcade game to this day.
"The last time I saw something this slow and choppy, I was watching a Ginsu Knife commercial." Another one of your classic quotes. Is there anyone else out there that catches his one liners?
@@kbramlett6877 My personal favourites are the set-up gags, always followed by; "Noooo, I'm not talking about..." Lol it's the utter randomness which always has me howling 😂
I believe this is one of the first arcade games I ever played. I was 4 or 5 and had to stand on a milk crate. My mom hit the fire button and I controlled the vehicle. We played it at the local Ben Franklin. It was a hobby store I believe.
I played this in the arcade a dozen times or so. I played it on my friends 2600 for dozens of hours and felt it was a fun game. It was one of the better games for the 2600 IMO. Great video. God bless.
@@sandal_thong8631 that is odd as In most games the music makes me enjoy it more. Just my humble opinion. Perhaps they turned the music off in order to not distort their narration?!.
@@sandal_thong8631 In truth I cannot remember whether there was music for the 2600. The Iast time I played it was on some emulation of the arcade version.
i grew up in maine and rarely saw most of these games. the fair had a hundred or so for a week every year. its great remembering being a kid and not just the games but the places they were at. great channel .
I agree...yet there is nothing quite like the sound in the darkness of an arcade like.... Space Invaders...Not to mention the epic and mesmerizing sounds of Star Castle
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Exactly. The one by me always had a "Coming Soon:...." sign up weekly with the names of brand new releases on it they would have soon. I was always a sucker for car / racing related games so any title that sounded like it could be one was very exciting as a kid. "RPM" was a good example. (Disappointing game though it turned out)
@@stinkypinkeee5085 Last night I was looking through some old Apple disks I found in a Salvation Army store and found a grey scale version that seems to run smoother than the colour version!
Moon Patrol is a special game for me. Back in the day, I used to play it with my friend and older brother once a week or so after an educational session playing edutainment titles at the library. We could borrow the game for the Apple IIe and usually got to play for a relatively short time. My friend’s mom was pretty strict and I remember she once turned off the monitor on us while we were playing because we wouldn’t quit, and we tried to continue playing blind. When she turned on the computer maybe ten seconds later, we were still alive! That sure got us whooping and cheering. This was also the first game that we finished/cleared, and I still remember how excited I was when we beat the game! It was soooooo satisfying. Thanks for the documentary!
What a great and comprehensive video. Love your content. Always loved Moon Patrol from when I first saw my cousin play it in the deli in our country town. When it came out on Atari 2600 we played it till our hands cramped up with RSI! Thanks for this retrospective.
This is an old school game that takes me back. Back to a Pizza Parlor back in 1983. This game has always stuck with me and is a classic I'll always remember. I recall playing this in school a long time ago on an Apple ][e, floppy disk style.
This game was the first one I tried to replicate at home with some (terrible at the time) coding skills, and got me to move into assembly language programming. Definitely the catalyst to my career.
I was thinking about requesting this but here it is already. Glad someone else did! This is one of the games I played the most, on a coctail table in a bowling alley Oslo, Norway. Also enjoyed Moon Buggy on the C64. Thought I had gotten to the end/loop but I don’t remember any plants from below so maybe I dreamt it.
Patman - i really enjoy all of your videos a lot. One little detail that always makes me smile is that in each video when you say “the year was 19__ ...” you always show a poster for a popular movie of that year without commenting on it. Those little touches are awesome. Keep it up!!!
My favorite game mechanic of this great game, is the ability to brake by moving left or speed up the buggy by moving right on the joystick. 🕹 This gives you the ability clear the courses faster, or to dodge the incoming bombs from the UFOs. 🛸 I love this game! ❤️ Great video, sir! 👍🏻
Hello and greetings from the United States. I don't think I've talked to anybody from Argentina before. Thanks to the nice words, glad you enjoy my content
They say it was "the golden age." Funny, I once got invited into a an office's game room that had really bad arcade games that I could play for free for an hour. I guess they couldn't sell them!
I was a baby when this arcade game was originally released, but I was able to spot the gameplay mechanics being used here in another well-known video game series: Metal Slug. To be more precise, the moon buggy seems to move almost identically to the Metal Slug tank. I guess it's no coincidence that the guy that created Moon Patrol would go on to create the Metal Slug series, LOL. Nice video.
Not just the first video game I ever played, but one of my earliest vivid memories. Played this at a Round Table Pizza in 1982 when I was 3 or 4, and instantly became obsessed with video games for life. It completely blew my mind and shaped my future.
@@leadbones Metal Strom was crazy. Alert screens before bosses were classy AF. My top dog was Kung Fu but I really liked In The Hunt, Undercover Cops and Hook too. Respect to GunForce II also for being basically Metal Slug 0. Lots of talent came out of that company.
According to a Guru Larry video this was probably the hot game of 1982, I find that unbelievable considering it came out in arcades alongside DK Jr., Dig Dug, Q-Bert, Joust, Zaxxon, Robotron, Burgertime, Gravitar, and Bump 'n' Jump, I really have no idea which one I'd have wanted to play most if I was in arcades back then. And there was River Raid and Pitfall on consoles, and Ultima 2 and The Hobbit on computers, what a crazy year that must have been.
I know moon patrol was popular Back then But to say it was hotter than donkey Kong Junior or Dig dug or Qbert I am not too sure. Those were all massive games. That's why they call it the Golden age of arcade :-)
when I was a kid in the 80s Moon Patrol and Joust was my favorites. And I just learned about a homebrew port of Moon Patrol (called Lunar Patrol) for the Atari 7800 and looks absolutely amazing for an early work in progress.
In 1987 I was in 6th grade and we had a 'typing' class that used really rudimentary computers. Due to limited computers, we were assigned a buddy and took turns. There was some sort of ultra simple program intended to run you through typing exercises. On Fridays, we played a crappy version of Moon Patrol as a treat. Probably a version you didn't bother covering. If it was one of the versions you covered I couldn't tell ...The school had those all-orange monitors, so if the game had more than 1 color, we didn't know it.
I used to play this on my C64 in the 90s. I know the C64 and Moon Patrol were from the early 80s, but my family's first computer was a hand-me-down C64 in the early 90s. I'm used to the gameplay and music being faster though, since we had an NTSC C64 here in the US.
Music gets in my head from time to time still. It is one of the few machines I cannot just walk by and not play at least once. I love the 2600 version of this game as limited as it is.
I remember when the local arcade got this game. I got to know the guy that worked there, and he was really bragging up the game. He was really bragging about the parallax scrolling. I don't recall his exact explanation. I was impressed that you mentioned this from the go. If I recall, he was bragging about the amount of dedicated RAM for each of the mountain layers. It's funny to look back at how my younger self just brushed it off as meh. Now I find it pretty impressive. I also find it impressive how the home ports created the same effect with ingenious split scrolling and character set pixel shifting.
The first version I played was the Apple II version, but it was on a non-colored monitor (only green & black). I got so used to playing the 2600 version, that when I played the arcade version, I had a hard time pressing a button to jump.
LOL, I have encountered that before. I learned to play marble madness on the Commodore 64 and Amiga using the joystick because I had never seen an arcade cabinet. Years later I finally come across one and since it uses a trackball I can't do anything with the game LOL
What I remember most about this is the fact Gary Owens voiced the commercials. Never played the game but love the narrator's work and he has a deep connection with my childhood.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries yep the voice of Space Ghost, Roger Ramjet, and host and narrator of countless TV specials himself Gary Owens. And please keep up the good work.
Good video. FYI this got an Arcade Archives version done by the excellent Hamster recently for Nintendo Switch and Playstation 4. It is well done, although getting the chance to sit down with the game long-term does show the issue with the 3 minute rule. One of my favorite-looking arcade cabinets as well.
Moon Patrol and Elevator Action are two classic arcade games that bring me back to my childhood, because for a long time they were in my local bowling alley.
MOONPATROL! I loved this game as a kid. I played it all the time in computer class bc I coded really fast. This was back on an old apple 2e. Great game!
I loved metal slug, I didn't know it was the same designer/programmer. Also, could we get a video on Time Pilot? I used to play that and Joust at the local supermarket while my mom would get groceries. Win/win for both of us, back in the day when you could leave your child unattended.
I had this game on Atari when I was a kid, I NEVER knew it was actually a port of the obviously much better arcade game😮..... Thanks again Patman, and stay strong and blessed!!!🙏😉✌
Moon Patrol was my friend and I's go to game. Somehow listening to the music, watching the suspension bounce of the moon buggy and the satisfying jumps relaxed us. Your Channel is the best. Can you do a History of Bump -n- Jump?
I played this the other week in MAME. It's still a fun game! And yeah, the music is catchy and I can hear it playing in my head, ha ha. I remember seeing this in the arcade when I was young and thinking the graphics were cool for the time.
Played the C64 version a lot as a kid. The later levels with mines, the tanks, the flying ship that comes from behind and the volcanos were really challenging but fun to play. We played it through in maybe 30-60 minutes back then :)...
his name is not "blob"...that funny looking "capital B" is actually the german way of doing "ss"; his name is pronounced "ur-gen bloss"...jurgen bloss...bloss, not blob ;)
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries np, it happens a lot...i still have to rethink a word when i see that symbol, as i read it as a "B" more often than not myself :)
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Neither did I?! I suddenly had a flashback to the Simpsons episode where Lisa is trying to convince Homer that pork, bacon, ham etc all come from one animal 🤣 *"Yeah, Yeah, Lisa... One magical animal!"* This guy literally is the delicious pig of the arcade world lol... Edit: Erm, hope he isn't kosher, or Muslim, because I've possibly just deeply offended the man?! 🤔
+sebas tuon Well, alright then! Thank you for the history lesson, Mr. Tuon! ;D I was a huge fan of EGM growing up. Unfortunately, I no longer have my library of magazines, as they are lost to the sands of time. I had just been thinking that it would be nice to find some old issues from when I was an avid reader of the mag. I would definitely purchase them!
Well, Vanguard has an awesome tune for invulnerability I suppose, and that looks great, though I take exception to not being able to easily move the ship after the first round.
I didn't know this was an arcade game. I only played it in elementary school on the classroom computer in the 1980s, along with "Oregon Trail". I'm unsure which system (Apple? Tandy?), but I remember it being black-and-white (or possibly black-and-green). Thanks, Patman!
First time I saw this game was the end of 1982 immediately following my graduation from Navy boot camp at RTC San Diego. I'll forever link that tune with the colonnade of the Navy Exchange in San Diego.
Moon Patrol for the green and black Apple II was either the first or second video game I ever saw. I thought it was astonishing. The other game being RC Pro Am for NES but I couldn't hardly play it.
The story is not over yet ! See you Moon Patrol on October 10th with Amico from Intellivision Entertainement ! :) A really small demo is available on the application "Amico Club". A complete level should be available in a few days or weeks. Thanks PatmanQC.
Just discovered your channel. Love your videos. Guessing you’re somewhere here in the Quad cities. Every time I take my son to Northpark Mall, I point down to where Aladdin’s castle used to be and where are used to spend most of my weekend afternoons. Man do I miss the old days of arcades. Glad to have discovered galloping ghost up by Chicago. Amazing arcade. Keep up the good work!
Yes, I've been in the Quad cities all my life. Every time I'm at that end of Northpark mall I reminisce about Aladdin's castle as well :-) I've never been to galloping ghost. When I was able to go I didn't have any friends that were into retro games as much as I was and I wasn't going to make the three hour trip to Chicago each way by myself. Now that my son is old enough unfortunately I'm now disabled and wouldn't be able to enjoy it. Glad you enjoy my content, thanks
Weird location - There was a full size arcade cabinet of this game inside of the Marion County(Indianapolis) Juvenile Detention Center back in the early 90's. How do I know - I spent a wonderful 3 months there for being a delinquent. Anytime we had rec time, I played it, so naturally, I never forget this game, and especially that theme.
As a kid going to Las Vegas with my grand parents we always ended up at Circus circus and to be fair they had a kick ass arcade.. this game is one I always looked for to play. This game Paperboy, Rampage and Gauntlet were my favorites in the early to mid 80's
I drank many big gulps at 7-11 with a pocket full of quarters playing this and TRON, until my mom would come track me down and pull me out of the store. Some of my favorite times from the 80's 😎
Literally the first game I ever played. There was an arcade machine in a corner store near my place that I pumped a hell of a lot of 20 cent pieces into (I'm Australian, we don't have quarters :P) I would have been 5 or 6. And I think it was a good introduction to the video game world; it was playable, not too complicated for my tiny young mind, and just a lot of fun.
Great vid thanx, This was one of the best, I played it back in the day at an arcade in Portrush Northern Ireland. Gonna load up MAME now and play it :)
Loved this video, I knew of moon patrol thru Atari 2600 and loved it, Still have the catridge, was one of the few that had music on those days for Atari 2600, I just downloaded the mame rom to play it!!!
A great game ... as a child I was very happy to play it ... once I thought about doing a remake ... where when you fall into the wells and lose tires ... until you lose them all and explode.
Your my favorite gamer,and Video game nerd, 2 of the best,i watch your videos from Romania so i just want you to know that you have fans even in Romania 😘
This was one of my favorites back in the day, possibly my #1 favorite (Joust and Galaga are pretty good too). When I was 7-8 years old I warned an adult who was playing the game not to slow down on the land mine stage, which is a major rookie mistake. He ignored me and few second later.... That is one of my favorite childhood memories.
"...turn off the sound so it's really like being on the moon" - haha! I agree the VCS one was good, they programmed the basics of the game accurately and included the right physics and feel on the buggy. A nice game.
This game was also released for the Sord M5 and the very rare and obscure Nec Pc-8001MkII. Thankfully they have both been founded probably 4 years to late to play it now
Paul G maybe was a bit of an overstatement, but I think it was the first game that I could get into, do ok at, was exciting for me. There were other games that I liked ok before I found it, but I couldn’t get the same enjoyment from them.
There are a lot of subtle graphic touches in the game. I really like the way the wheels bounce along the ground with the terrain.
I agree, I like the way the wheels bounce off the Buggy when it explodes
I'm 45. As a kid I didn't like videogames that much but loved arcade and pinball machines. Played then from 1981 to the early 90s. I discovered your channel last week, through an UA-cam recomendation, and just loved it. Not because of the nostalgia, I'm not that type, but because I'm a journalist and I really like to see a story well written and told. My favorite part of your videos is when you compare the arcade game to it's console and computer versions. Sometimes, watching your videos, I laugh remembering me and my friends, back in the day, a little bit confused asking ourselves why the Atari, MSX or Odyssey versions weren't as cool as the arcade's. Keep the amazing work, man!
That's awesome, I appreciate the nice words especially coming from a journalist. I'm Glad you enjoy my content and hope you continue to do so. Thanks
Great video! I used to play this when my parents took us to the movies in the 80s, my Dad and I loved it. The wheel animation after the car would explode had us both laughing like goofs to my mom and sibs' dismay. This is my all-time favorite arcade game to this day.
Thank you, I love reading about families bonding over videogames. Thanks for sharing
My favourite game too!
;-)
"The last time I saw something this slow and choppy, I was watching a Ginsu Knife commercial." Another one of your classic quotes. Is there anyone else out there that catches his one liners?
LOL, thanks. Hardly anybody else comments on them so I just assume people don't think I'm funny :-)
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries There are probably many people who just don't get your reference jokes.
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My personal favourites are the set-up gags, always followed by;
"Noooo, I'm not talking about..."
Lol it's the utter randomness which always has me howling 😂
@@kbramlett6877 Sorry I didn't see your comment before. That could be it :-)
@@residentelect Thanks, I was a sure people are getting tired of those or not
I believe this is one of the first arcade games I ever played. I was 4 or 5 and had to stand on a milk crate. My mom hit the fire button and I controlled the vehicle. We played it at the local Ben Franklin. It was a hobby store I believe.
That's very cool, I love reading stories about families bonding over videogames
I wish we had an arcade game or two at the Ben Franklin that I worked at throughout high school!
When I was a kid I'd eat moon pies while playing moon patrol. Totally immersive!!!
who asked you smartass?!
Tmi
Did you wear moon boots?
LOL
9bits wrote a four word sentence that they had to edit and still got it wrong!! Some people are beyond stupid.
I played this in the arcade a dozen times or so. I played it on my friends 2600 for dozens of hours and felt it was a fun game. It was one of the better games for the 2600 IMO.
Great video. God bless.
Thanks for the nice words
I saw a review last week for the 2600 and they had the music turned off!
@@sandal_thong8631 that is odd as In most games the music makes me enjoy it more. Just my humble opinion. Perhaps they turned the music off in order to not distort their narration?!.
@@dub2536 I had the feeling they didn't know there was music.
@@sandal_thong8631 In truth I cannot remember whether there was music for the 2600. The Iast time I played it was on some emulation of the arcade version.
My orthodontist had this game in the waiting room. You didn't even need quarters. It was awesome.
Very cool. :-)
i grew up in maine and rarely saw most of these games. the fair had a hundred or so for a week every year. its great remembering being a kid and not just the games but the places they were at. great channel .
Thank you very much, I can recall going to carnivals and seeing a row of five or six Pac-Man machines lined up side-by-sideIn each one of them full.
Moon Patrol & Dig Dug & Tron was my fav trio in the Arcade 🤗
Those are all classics
Moon Patrol and Joust were my two favorite arcade games as a kid. I miss walking into the sound of an arcade going full tilt so much!
I hear you, dimly lit room with 20 or 30 arcade games side-by-side. The golden age of the arcades
I agree...yet there is nothing quite like the sound in the darkness of an arcade like.... Space Invaders...Not to mention the epic and mesmerizing sounds of Star Castle
Would love to see a video featuring Star Castle
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Exactly.
The one by me always had a "Coming Soon:...." sign up weekly with the names of brand new releases on it they would have soon. I was always a sucker for car / racing related games so any title that sounded like it could be one was very exciting as a kid. "RPM" was a good example. (Disappointing game though it turned out)
I liked arcade Joust. I played 3 good games at the rec center: Moon Patrol, Jungle Hunt, and Turbo.
I loved playing this game on my Apple 2 back in the 80's, and I have to admit that I still enjoy dusting off the old 2C and playing this!
I never owned one but always wanted to back in the day
That was an excellent version...so fun...
@@stinkypinkeee5085 Last night I was looking through some old Apple disks I found in a Salvation Army store and found a grey scale version that seems to run smoother than the colour version!
The last video I watched said the Apple II version was bad. I can't see Apple Computers last much longer with such low-quality games.
One of my favorite games! Just as much fun today as it was new!! The sound it top notch. The blowing up the rocks sound effect is very satisfying
Absolutely it is :-)
I hated when you jumped over a crater just to not be able to avoid landing on a rock on the way over lol
Moon Patrol is a special game for me. Back in the day, I used to play it with my friend and older brother once a week or so after an educational session playing edutainment titles at the library. We could borrow the game for the Apple IIe and usually got to play for a relatively short time. My friend’s mom was pretty strict and I remember she once turned off the monitor on us while we were playing because we wouldn’t quit, and we tried to continue playing blind. When she turned on the computer maybe ten seconds later, we were still alive! That sure got us whooping and cheering. This was also the first game that we finished/cleared, and I still remember how excited I was when we beat the game! It was soooooo satisfying. Thanks for the documentary!
LOL that's hilarious. Thanks for sharing your story. Glad you enjoyed the documentary
What a great and comprehensive video. Love your content. Always loved Moon Patrol from when I first saw my cousin play it in the deli in our country town. When it came out on Atari 2600 we played it till our hands cramped up with RSI! Thanks for this retrospective.
This is an old school game that takes me back. Back to a Pizza Parlor back in 1983. This game has always stuck with me and is a classic I'll always remember. I recall playing this in school a long time ago on an Apple ][e, floppy disk style.
Thanks for sharing your story, it gives me the warm fuzzies as well :-)
This game was the first one I tried to replicate at home with some (terrible at the time) coding skills, and got me to move into assembly language programming. Definitely the catalyst to my career.
That's very cool
Great video of an arcade classic. I’m loving your channel and all the videos.
You deserve a million subscribers and it’s up to us to get you there.
Thank you very much, that's very nice of you to say
And thanks to this being a smash hit, we were blessed with other Irem classics like R-Type.
Absolutely
I also enjoy Kickle Cubicle on NES...it is creative and fun, while gets hard but not impossible
I was thinking about requesting this but here it is already. Glad someone else did! This is one of the games I played the most, on a coctail table in a bowling alley Oslo, Norway. Also enjoyed Moon Buggy on the C64. Thought I had gotten to the end/loop but I don’t remember any plants from below so maybe I dreamt it.
Patman - i really enjoy all of your videos a lot. One little detail that always makes me smile is that in each video when you say “the year was 19__ ...” you always show a poster for a popular movie of that year without commenting on it. Those little touches are awesome. Keep it up!!!
Thanks for the nice words. I like to put in movies that I saw growing up just to bring people back :-)
My favorite game mechanic of this great game, is the ability to brake by moving left or speed up the buggy by moving right on the joystick. 🕹 This gives you the ability clear the courses faster, or to dodge the incoming bombs from the UFOs. 🛸
I love this game! ❤️
Great video, sir! 👍🏻
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it
Never got to play the actual arcade back in the day, but I sure did play the hell out of the 2600 version. That little theme will always be with me.
It still rattles around in my head to this day
Same. I have a few mp3 (from the time we used to download mp3) with bands playing the tune.
I discover your channel a month ago and now is one of my favorites, nice job. Greetings from Argentina.
Hello and greetings from the United States. I don't think I've talked to anybody from Argentina before. Thanks to the nice words, glad you enjoy my content
I can't believe how many games from 1982 I loved. I must have been really busy in the arcade!
LOL, you and me both
They say it was "the golden age." Funny, I once got invited into a an office's game room that had really bad arcade games that I could play for free for an hour. I guess they couldn't sell them!
every time i see a picture of one of these history of posts i get a massive nostalgia spike , love it
Hope you like it :-)
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We had great times in the 80s, sabre wolf on as spectrum, great days
Man had this on pc/dos as a kid. Brings back memories for sure ❤❤❤
I was a baby when this arcade game was originally released, but I was able to spot the gameplay mechanics being used here in another well-known video game series: Metal Slug. To be more precise, the moon buggy seems to move almost identically to the Metal Slug tank. I guess it's no coincidence that the guy that created Moon Patrol would go on to create the Metal Slug series, LOL. Nice video.
I never put it together until now either but you are right. The tank mechanics are very similar. Good call, thanks
I'm so glad I found your videos! I'll sure watch'em all! 🤩
That's very nice of you to say, thank you so much
Not just the first video game I ever played, but one of my earliest vivid memories. Played this at a Round Table Pizza in 1982 when I was 3 or 4, and instantly became obsessed with video games for life. It completely blew my mind and shaped my future.
It was a classic that's for sure. Thank you for sharing
There's a special place in my heart for Irem arcade games.
They give me the warm Fuzzies too :-)
Metal Storm has always been a particular favorite of mine. Still play it pretty often. But yeah, Irem seldom gets the repsect it's due.
@@leadbones Metal Strom was crazy. Alert screens before bosses were classy AF. My top dog was Kung Fu but I really liked In The Hunt, Undercover Cops and Hook too. Respect to GunForce II also for being basically Metal Slug 0. Lots of talent came out of that company.
According to a Guru Larry video this was probably the hot game of 1982, I find that unbelievable considering it came out in arcades alongside DK Jr., Dig Dug, Q-Bert, Joust, Zaxxon, Robotron, Burgertime, Gravitar, and Bump 'n' Jump, I really have no idea which one I'd have wanted to play most if I was in arcades back then. And there was River Raid and Pitfall on consoles, and Ultima 2 and The Hobbit on computers, what a crazy year that must have been.
I know moon patrol was popular Back then But to say it was hotter than donkey Kong Junior or Dig dug or Qbert I am not too sure. Those were all massive games. That's why they call it the Golden age of arcade :-)
I love and still play Moon patrol. First played it on the Atari 2600 and then Atari STe. Great game and another awesome video. Keepem coming.
Thanks, I was really impressed with the Atari ST version. I was surprised how close the arcade it was
when I was a kid in the 80s Moon Patrol and Joust was my favorites.
And I just learned about a homebrew port of Moon Patrol (called Lunar Patrol) for the Atari 7800 and looks absolutely amazing for an early work in progress.
I still hear this rockin music when it’s quiet since this game was at Turner’s ice cream shop for years back in the 80’s..
In 1987 I was in 6th grade and we had a 'typing' class that used really rudimentary computers. Due to limited computers, we were assigned a buddy and took turns. There was some sort of ultra simple program intended to run you through typing exercises. On Fridays, we played a crappy version of Moon Patrol as a treat. Probably a version you didn't bother covering. If it was one of the versions you covered I couldn't tell ...The school had those all-orange monitors, so if the game had more than 1 color, we didn't know it.
That's cool, I can recall those orange monitors :-)
I remember first playing this while waiting for my dad to pick me up after seeing my first concert, Devo. Damn I loved the eighties!
Love it! Finally was able to finish the arcade version on my modded 1Up, and yup, super fun and satisfying to complete. Great clip, thanks so much!
Nice work!Thanks
I used to play this on my C64 in the 90s. I know the C64 and Moon Patrol were from the early 80s, but my family's first computer was a hand-me-down C64 in the early 90s. I'm used to the gameplay and music being faster though, since we had an NTSC C64 here in the US.
That's what I had as well
Music gets in my head from time to time still. It is one of the few machines I cannot just walk by and not play at least once. I love the 2600 version of this game as limited as it is.
I remember when the local arcade got this game. I got to know the guy that worked there, and he was really bragging up the game. He was really bragging about the parallax scrolling. I don't recall his exact explanation. I was impressed that you mentioned this from the go. If I recall, he was bragging about the amount of dedicated RAM for each of the mountain layers. It's funny to look back at how my younger self just brushed it off as meh. Now I find it pretty impressive. I also find it impressive how the home ports created the same effect with ingenious split scrolling and character set pixel shifting.
It was pretty impressive at the time and like I said this was the first game to use it. Thanks for watching
The arcade game at a marine park was the first time I ever played a computer game back in '83/84. Haven't stopped playing since.
Great show!
I love hearing about how my old favorites were made. 👍
Thank you very much
I remember playing this on Apple 2E. God, I feel old.
LOL
same! was our first real computer besides the atari 800 xl that had tape drive... not a fan of that.
Patman, I almost forgot about this game! You're making me realize that in the 80s and 90s I played way too many video games! Lol
LOL you and me both my friend
One of my all times favorite... I would love to see a sequel.
Love me some Moon Patrol on the 2600. Excellent video as always Patman. Thankyou my freind.
Excellent, glad you enjoyed it. Thanks
I love IREM for R-Type, but it´s always fun to learn more about the history of this company. Thanks for the nice video.
Absolutely, thanks for the nice words
The first version I played was the Apple II version, but it was on a non-colored monitor (only green & black). I got so used to playing the 2600 version, that when I played the arcade version, I had a hard time pressing a button to jump.
LOL, I have encountered that before. I learned to play marble madness on the Commodore 64 and Amiga using the joystick because I had never seen an arcade cabinet. Years later I finally come across one and since it uses a trackball I can't do anything with the game LOL
What I remember most about this is the fact Gary Owens voiced the commercials. Never played the game but love the narrator's work and he has a deep connection with my childhood.
Is that Gary owen In the commercial? I was trying to place the voice but couldn't. Thanks for the nice words, glad you enjoyed the content
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries yep the voice of Space Ghost, Roger Ramjet, and host and narrator of countless TV specials himself Gary Owens. And please keep up the good work.
@@DemitriVladMaximov Very cool, thank you for the info
Good video. FYI this got an Arcade Archives version done by the excellent Hamster recently for Nintendo Switch and Playstation 4. It is well done, although getting the chance to sit down with the game long-term does show the issue with the 3 minute rule. One of my favorite-looking arcade cabinets as well.
Thank you, I will have to check it out on the switch I wasn't aware it came out until I posted this video. Thanks for the tip
Moon Patrol and Elevator Action are two classic arcade games that bring me back to my childhood, because for a long time they were in my local bowling alley.
They are both classics, sounds like my bowling alley :-)
MOONPATROL! I loved this game as a kid. I played it all the time in computer class bc I coded really fast. This was back on an old apple 2e. Great game!
I always enjoyed it
I loved metal slug, I didn't know it was the same designer/programmer.
Also, could we get a video on Time Pilot? I used to play that and Joust at the local supermarket while my mom would get groceries. Win/win for both of us, back in the day when you could leave your child unattended.
If I can find something interesting to talk about with those games then absolutely
I had this game on Atari when I was a kid, I NEVER knew it was actually a port of the obviously much better arcade game😮..... Thanks again Patman, and stay strong and blessed!!!🙏😉✌
Moon Patrol was my friend and I's go to game. Somehow listening to the music, watching the suspension bounce of the moon buggy and the satisfying jumps relaxed us. Your Channel is the best. Can you do a History of Bump -n- Jump?
I can certainly add to the list. Thanks for the nice words
I played this the other week in MAME. It's still a fun game! And yeah, the music is catchy and I can hear it playing in my head, ha ha. I remember seeing this in the arcade when I was young and thinking the graphics were cool for the time.
They were really good, and that darn music! LOL
My favorite Atari game as a kid. Was pleasantly surprised to see it on PS4 in the Arcade Archives section:)
It's cool were seeing all these old games get rereleased
You described perfectly why I love this game.
It's a classic game in my book
Played the C64 version a lot as a kid. The later levels with mines, the tanks, the flying ship that comes from behind and the volcanos were really challenging but fun to play. We played it through in maybe 30-60 minutes back then :)...
I'm impressed you even showed the TI-99/4A version. I had this game on that computer back in the 80s. It was actually one of the better TI games.
I try to be pretty thorough with the conversions :-)
It was around 82 I first discovered this classic while visiting Coromandel NZ, it was in the small local arcade.
his name is not "blob"...that funny looking "capital B" is actually the german way of doing "ss"; his name is pronounced "ur-gen bloss"...jurgen bloss...bloss, not blob ;)
What can I say, my Germans a little rusty :-)
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries np, it happens a lot...i still have to rethink a word when i see that symbol, as i read it as a "B" more often than not myself :)
I like your positive note on the ZX Spectrum version. Pretty clever!
LOL, thank you
i cant believe i had totally forgotten about this game, damn i am getting old
LOL
“...and he went on to create street fighter, fatal fury, king of fighters and metal slug!!!!” me: wait what? this man is a genius then!!!! lol
I knew he created Street fighter but was unaware of the rest of his resume.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
Neither did I?!
I suddenly had a flashback to the Simpsons episode where Lisa is trying to convince Homer that pork, bacon, ham etc all come from one animal 🤣
*"Yeah, Yeah, Lisa... One magical animal!"*
This guy literally is the delicious pig of the arcade world lol...
Edit:
Erm, hope he isn't kosher, or Muslim, because I've possibly just deeply offended the man?! 🤔
+sebas tuon
Well, alright then! Thank you for the history lesson, Mr. Tuon! ;D
I was a huge fan of EGM growing up. Unfortunately, I no longer have my library of magazines, as they are lost to the sands of time. I had just been thinking that it would be nice to find some old issues from when I was an avid reader of the mag. I would definitely purchase them!
You know you ve got yourself an awesome tune when it can be on the 2600 and still sound great!
Well, Vanguard has an awesome tune for invulnerability I suppose, and that looks great, though I take exception to not being able to easily move the ship after the first round.
great game. also... kudos on the video production values too
Thank you very much, I appreciate The nice words
I've always loved Moon Patrol on my C64. Oddly what fascinated me most was the movement of the wheels over the terrain.
They are really smooth on the Commodore versionI agree
Just blew my mind, that is Blaster Master! Even the music!
I've never heard or seen this one. Awesome video! Thank you pmqc good sir, kind sir
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it
Very nice, a great game for sure! I remember playing it in the arcade but certainly never made it to the final level.
Thank you
I didn't know this was an arcade game. I only played it in elementary school on the classroom computer in the 1980s, along with "Oregon Trail". I'm unsure which system (Apple? Tandy?), but I remember it being black-and-white (or possibly black-and-green). Thanks, Patman!
I'm sure it was an Apple as most classrooms had those back then. Thanks for watching :-)
First time I saw this game was the end of 1982 immediately following my graduation from Navy boot camp at RTC San Diego. I'll forever link that tune with the colonnade of the Navy Exchange in San Diego.
Moon Patrol for the green and black Apple II was either the first or second video game I ever saw. I thought it was astonishing. The other game being RC Pro Am for NES but I couldn't hardly play it.
It was definitely ahead of the time
Such a cool game! I play it all the time!
Great video!
Thank you
The story is not over yet ! See you Moon Patrol on October 10th with Amico from Intellivision Entertainement ! :)
A really small demo is available on the application "Amico Club". A complete level should be available in a few days or weeks.
Thanks PatmanQC.
Thanks for the info, looking forward to the remake
Just discovered your channel. Love your videos. Guessing you’re somewhere here in the Quad cities. Every time I take my son to Northpark Mall, I point down to where Aladdin’s castle used to be and where are used to spend most of my weekend afternoons. Man do I miss the old days of arcades. Glad to have discovered galloping ghost up by Chicago. Amazing arcade. Keep up the good work!
Yes, I've been in the Quad cities all my life. Every time I'm at that end of Northpark mall I reminisce about Aladdin's castle as well :-)
I've never been to galloping ghost. When I was able to go I didn't have any friends that were into retro games as much as I was and I wasn't going to make the three hour trip to Chicago each way by myself. Now that my son is old enough unfortunately I'm now disabled and wouldn't be able to enjoy it.
Glad you enjoy my content, thanks
Weird location - There was a full size arcade cabinet of this game inside of the Marion County(Indianapolis) Juvenile Detention Center back in the early 90's.
How do I know - I spent a wonderful 3 months there for being a delinquent. Anytime we had rec time, I played it, so naturally, I never forget this game, and especially that theme.
Funny, just read that arcades got a bad reputation for delinquency after the Crash of 1983.
As a kid going to Las Vegas with my grand parents we always ended up at Circus circus and to be fair they had a kick ass arcade.. this game is one I always looked for to play. This game Paperboy, Rampage and Gauntlet were my favorites in the early to mid 80's
I would have loved to have seen The kind of arcade on display in Las Vegas back in 1983 :-)
wow. i remember playing this game on my c64 with my brothers in the 80's. very fun game.
I always enjoyed it on the Commodore
I drank many big gulps at 7-11 with a pocket full of quarters playing this and TRON, until my mom would come track me down and pull me out of the store. Some of my favorite times from the 80's 😎
LOL, that was back when arcade games were essentially everywhere :-)
Literally the first game I ever played. There was an arcade machine in a corner store near my place that I pumped a hell of a lot of 20 cent pieces into (I'm Australian, we don't have quarters :P) I would have been 5 or 6. And I think it was a good introduction to the video game world; it was playable, not too complicated for my tiny young mind, and just a lot of fun.
That's awesome, thanks for sharing your memories. This was back when arcades were everywhere. Truly the golden age of the arcade :-)
OMG, my favorite video game ever! Thank you so much.
Thank you for watching
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I remember playing it on my Radio Shack Color Computer as well... although I don't know if it was licensed.
Definitely one of the first arcades I ever played. A local sporting club had a table top version.
I had never seen one of those, very cool
Great vid thanx, This was one of the best, I played it back in the day at an arcade in Portrush Northern Ireland. Gonna load up MAME now and play it :)
Thank you, I always wanted to go to Ireland :-)
Loved this video, I knew of moon patrol thru Atari 2600 and loved it, Still have the catridge, was one of the few that had music on those days for Atari 2600, I just downloaded the mame rom to play it!!!
A great game ... as a child I was very happy to play it ... once I thought about doing a remake ... where when you fall into the wells and lose tires ... until you lose them all and explode.
It is definitely a classic
I played so much Moon Patrol on Commodore 64.
Also, you sound EXACTLY like the narrator in the opening of Starfox 64. Lol. Which is a great thing!
Okay, thanks :-)
Your my favorite gamer,and Video game nerd, 2 of the best,i watch your videos from Romania so i just want you to know that you have fans even in Romania 😘
Hello, thank you for the nice words. I have never spoken to anybody from Romania So cheers from the United States :-)
I had a lot of fun with this game when I was a kid on our family's Tandy 1000. I played it for hours
would love to see you do a history of the arcade game star castle, thank you, love your channel.
Depends if I can find anything interesting to talk about. Glad you enjoy my content
My dad in 80 used to play, this game on arcade machine in Poland. I'm going to instal this to my emulator! This game is looking awesome!
thanks PatmanQC! another good vid- well done
Thank you very much
This was one of my favorites back in the day, possibly my #1 favorite (Joust and Galaga are pretty good too). When I was 7-8 years old I warned an adult who was playing the game not to slow down on the land mine stage, which is a major rookie mistake. He ignored me and few second later.... That is one of my favorite childhood memories.
LOL that's great
"...turn off the sound so it's really like being on the moon" - haha! I agree the VCS one was good, they programmed the basics of the game accurately and included the right physics and feel on the buggy. A nice game.
It really was very good
This game was also released for the Sord M5 and the very rare and obscure Nec Pc-8001MkII. Thankfully they have both been founded probably 4 years to late to play it now
I actually found that Moon Patrol cabinet at Emporium SF and works very well. Trying to speed through as fast as I could.
That's what I would try to do as well :-)
Great video Pat! 😎
The game (in the arcade) changed my life when I was a kid.
It was always one of my favorites
In what way did this game change your life?
Paul G maybe was a bit of an overstatement, but I think it was the first game that I could get into, do ok at, was exciting for me. There were other games that I liked ok before I found it, but I couldn’t get the same enjoyment from them.
It made me forego swimming to play it, Jungle Hunt and Turbo at the rec center.